Planet
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And of course, there is marine life, occupying the largest ecosystem in volume on the planet, from microorganisms to fish to marine mammals, like seals, dolphins and whales.
Our team has been hard at work over the past few years, conducting missions in some of the toughest ocean conditions on the planet, from the Arctic to the tropical Pacific.
Now it is time to quantify our own planet, because we cannot fix what we cannot measure, and we cannot prepare for what we don't know.
So all life on this
planet
is made in ATCGs, the four letters of DNA.
It means you can create alternate chemistries to us that could be chemistries adaptable to a very different
planet
that could create life and heredity.
In order to control climate, CO2 emissions have to literally go to zero because it's the cumulative emissions that drive heating on the
planet.
The final thing that you should notice is that each year, about 10 gigatons of carbon are getting added to the
planet'
s atmosphere, and then diffusing into the ocean and into the land.
It's a function of where on the surface of the
planet
they are.
I'm going to take you on a 16-minute trip on 72 percent of the planet, so buckle up.
So we're going to immerse ourselves in the 72 percent of the
planet
because, you know, it's really naive to think that the Easter Bunny put all the resources on the continents.
And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the
planet.
Almost a quarter of our
planet
is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon.
So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own
planet.
And our interest in this mountain range, as Earth scientists in those days, was not only because of its tremendous size, dominating the planet, but the role it plays in the genesis of the Earth's outer skin.
Most of our
planet
does not feel the warmth of the sun.
Most of our
planet
is in eternal darkness.
Its mission is to go where no one has gone before on
planet
Earth.
It's a big blank sheet on our
planet.
Why do we have programs to build habitation on Mars, and we have programs to look at colonizing the moon, but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own
planet?
This was first really tested when Galileo got his hands on one of the first telescopes, and as he gazed into the night sky, what he found there was a planet, Jupiter, with four moons circling around it.
You're not talking about moons floating around some
planet
Jupiter.
And even a limited nuclear war involving, say, tens of nuclear weapons, could lead to the end of all life on the
planet.
Imagine you are a space explorer arriving at a distant planet, searching for aliens.
To immediately orbit the planet, land, take a quick look around for any big, obvious signs of life, and report back to home base.
But what's more amazing is what you can't see, because what we know now is that around every star or almost every star, there's a planet, or probably a few.
But here we are on a planet, and there are so many things that are amazing about Earth that we're searching far and wide to find things that are like that.
And this tenuous veneer around our
planet
is what allows life to flourish.
It protects our
planet
from too many impacts, from meteorites and the like.
So atmospheric escape is not specific to
planet
Earth.
It's part of what it means to be a planet, if you ask me, because planets, not just here on Earth but throughout the universe, can undergo atmospheric escape.
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